Catamaran Tours With Lunch Or Tapas In Mallorca

Food is the deciding detail on many Mallorca sail bookings. Some travellers want a full afternoon with a barbecue lunch, others want a quiet boat with a plate of tapas and a welcome drink, and a surprising number of listings feed you nothing at all beyond water. This guide compares every catamaran trip covered here that lists a meal, from the three small group tapas sails in Palma to the barbecue and buffet options on the north and east coasts, with each listing's own price, menu description and departure pier.

Which Catamaran Tours In Mallorca Include Lunch Or Tapas?

Across the listings covered here, fourteen shared catamaran trips state food in their inclusions, priced per person from $44.82 to $125, and three private charters state food, priced per group from $1,400.56 to $1,877.98. The three small group tapas sails from Palma run $110.92 to $125 per person and carry 10 to 12 guests each.

The honest starting point is that food-included does not mean the same thing on every boat. One listing promises a gourmet buffet with vegetarian and vegan options; another lists "pasta salad and local bread" as the barbecue; the tapas sails describe freshly made or homemade plates to share. The menus below come from each listing's own inclusion line, and where a listing is silent on something, this guide says so rather than filling the gap.

The pattern by port is fairly clean. Palma has the deepest selection: buffet, barbecue, tapas, finger foods and private charters all leave from piers along the Paseo Maritimo and the adjacent marinas. Port d'Alcudia serves barbecue lunches on its full-day style cruises. Port de Pollenca has one food-included sailing, a lunch of pasta salad, chicken, salami, cheese, bread and fruit with drinks. Cala Ratjada, on the east coast, has a single catamaran trip with a traditional Mallorcan lunch. Nothing listed here departs from Port de Soller, Cala d'Or, Santa Ponsa or Magaluf, so if you are staying there, your food-included options involve getting to one of the four ports above.

That table is the whole food-included map. The rest of this guide works through the differences that matter once you have it: how the tapas sails actually run, what the barbecue boats serve, what drinks cost extra, and which pier you head to in the morning. If you are still deciding between hull types rather than menus, the catamaran versus sailboat comparison covers stability and space, and the shared versus private charter guide works through the pricing logic.

What Do The Small Group Tapas Sails From Palma Actually Serve?

All three small group tapas listings leave from Palma, cost from $110.92 to $125 per person, last about 4 hours, and cap the boat at 10 to 12 guests. All three list tapas, and two (the Sailpalma.com and Sail Palma trips) include a welcome drink and water; alcoholic drinks are a paid extra on all three. Each lists snorkel gear and SUP boards.

The three sailings are separate products even where they look similar. The Mallorca Catamaran Small Group Cruise with Tapas is the $125 per person option, rated 4.8 from 649 reviews, departing D-Marin Palma Cuarentena in the Ponent district. Its food line is homemade typical Spanish tapas, with alcoholic beverages and cocktails sold on board and outside drinks not allowed beyond water. It lists floating devices, SUP boards and snorkeling equipment in its inclusions, and a swim stop.

The Sailpalma listing, From Palma: Luxury Catamaran Tour with Tapas & Welcome Drink, runs $110.92 per person, holds 4.7 from 527 reviews, and departs La Lonja Marina Charter on the Muelle de la lonja. It serves freshly made tapas to share with a welcome drink and water, and the wine, beer and soft drinks are a purchase. The third, Palma Luxury Catamaran Tour with Tapas and Welcome Drink by Sail Palma, is the most reviewed of the three at 4.9 from 2,107 reviews, from $112.68 per person, also from La Lonja, with the same freshly made tapas formula, a welcome drink, water, and an open bar you pay for. On that listing, bringing your own drinks and snacks is not allowed.

What you are buying on a tapas sail, beyond the food, is the headcount. Ten to twelve guests is the difference between a floating lunch party and a beach resort on water; the two La Lonja boats sell it explicitly, and the inclusions list, skipper, host or hostess, insurance, fees and fuel surcharge, reads like a small charter rather than a mass tour. The trade is price: $110.92 to $125 per person sits at the top of the per-person table for shared sailing, above every barbecue and buffet option ($44.82 to $102.44), with only the Cala Ratjada lunch trip inside that band. For a fuller picture of what drives those numbers, see the Mallorca boat tour prices guide.

One honest note on stops: two of the three tapas listings state no named stops at all, and the third names only the Bay of Palma generally. None of them promises a specific cove. The sailing area is the bay off Palma, and swim stops are listed on all three, but do not book a tapas sail expecting a named beach itinerary, because the listings do not give one.

How Do The BBQ And Buffet Sails Compare On Food?

The buffet and barbecue sails run from $44.82 to $102.44 per person from Palma and $78 to $85 per person from the northern ports. Where a boat states a guest cap, it is 36, 55 or 100; the rest of the listings give no figure. The Magic Catamarans 5-hour trip at $67.15 per person is the most complete barbecue listing, with soft drinks served all trip plus wine and sangria at the meal.

Start with the most reviewed listing on this site: Mallorca: Catamaran Luxury Tour with Meal and DJ, from $61.62 per person, 4.5 from 3,654 reviews, run by Attraction Catamarans from Muelle Golondrina on the Palma waterfront. It includes a gourmet buffet lunch or dinner depending on whether you pick the 5-hour morning or 4-hour sunset option, with vegetarian and vegan dishes stated, water with the meal, an onboard DJ and a professional photographer. The catches are on the exclusions line: bar drinks cost extra, snorkel gear is €20 to buy onboard, towels €8, and the single swim stop is at Cala Vella. Other pages covering the same trip are gathered on Mallorca Katamaran Tours.

The barbecue end of the spectrum is more varied. The Palma: Catamaran Cruise with Swimming and Snorkelling listing, from $44.82 per person with 4.3 from 3,255 reviews, is the entry point, and its barbecue, pasta salad and local bread, only comes with the "With BBQ" option, which adds water, beer or sangria. Hotel pickup and drop-off are not included, and the boat carries up to 100 guests. Magic Catamarans' 5-hour trip, 4.4 from 127 reviews at $67.15 per person, lays out the fullest single menu: chicken breast, chicken skewers and sausages with green and Russian salad, bread, sauces, cake and watermelon, plus sodas, water, juice and coffee during the whole trip, wine and sangria with the meal, and snorkel gear against a EUR 10 deposit or an ID.

The Oasis Catamaran pair splits the difference. The 4 hour Bay of Palma trip at $92 per person, 4.2 from 29 reviews and up to 36 guests, lists only "BBQ on board" with no drink commitments. Its sibling, the Aperitif and BBQ sail at $102.44 per person, 4.6 from 55 reviews and up to 55 guests, also runs 4 hours and stages an appetizer at the first stop and a barbecue at the second, with stand up paddle boards thrown in. Drinks are listed as not included on that second Oasis trip, so check the current inclusion line before booking. The Premium Catamaran Day or Sunset Trip by Sa Calma Boats, 4.4 from 522 reviews at $95.24 per person, prices its food by where you sit: General, Premium Terrace or Sky VIP Lounge, each with a different catering and drink arrangement and a 1.5-hour swim stop at the Cala Vella marine reserve area. If you're still weighing which sailing fits your plans, the guide to choosing the right Mallorca boat trip compares options by duration, meals, swim stops, group size and coast.

From the northern ports the formula is similar at a lower price. Tour2b's Port d'Alcudia cruise at $82 per person, 4.0 from 82 reviews, serves chicken, sausage, salad pasta and fruit with water, soft drinks, beer and sangria at lunch. Transports Maritims BRISA's 5-hour sailing, 4.1 from 130 reviews at $85 per person, serves a barbecue with pasta salad, bread, fresh fruit and two drinks during the meal, and stops at Es Coll Baix, Cala Murta and Aucanada Beach, passing the Formentor coast along the way. From Port de Pollenca itself, Nofrills Excursions' Bay of Pollensa tour, 4.6 from 112 reviews at $78 per person, lists a lunch of pasta salad, chicken, salami, cheese, Mallorcan bread and fruit with drinks included, though this is the one northern listing without free cancellation listed. The Cala Ratjada trip on the east coast, 4.6 from 16 reviews at $113 per person, is the only listing here serving a stated traditional Mallorcan lunch: a barbecue with bread and dessert, and a Spanish version of the menu naming trempó salad and tumbet. Weather can cancel trips, and the cancellation terms are on the live listing.

Where Does Each Food-Included Trip Depart From?

For Palma trips with food included, check the central waterfront between La Lonja and the Paseo Maritimo: Muelle de Golondrina, La Lonja Marina Charter, D-Marin Palma Cuarentena and the Auditorium piers are the four names to look for. The northern trips leave Port d'Alcudia or Port de Pollenca, and the east coast trip leaves the Cala Ratjada pier.

The Palma departure points sit within walking distance of each other along a waterfront that has just been rebuilt. The Paseo Maritimo redevelopment, 3.5 kilometers of it, replaced traffic lanes with more than 1,800 new trees and roughly 70 percent more pedestrian and green space, and it won a national sustainable construction prize, as reported by Mallorca's local press. Practically, that means the walk from the old town to the Golondrina pier or La Lonja is now a shaded promenade rather than a road margin, worth knowing when you are budgeting time before a morning departure.

One quirk of the Golondrina pier itself: the port authority has excluded party boats, tourist-registered vessels offering onboard parties and music, from the new Muelle de las Golondrinas concession, as reported in December 2025. This guide makes no claim about which listings are affected or unaffected. It is simply context for why the pier lineup on the Palma waterfront keeps shifting, and why checking your exact meeting point on the live listing the day before matters more than trusting last year's directions.

For the north and east, the departure logic is which resort you are sleeping in. Port d'Alcudia's two cruises leave from the promenade piers at Transports Maritims BRISA; the Pollensa Bay trip leaves in front of Restaurant Stay on Muelle Nuevo in Port de Pollenca; the Cala Ratjada trip leaves the pier at Carrer Ingeniero Gabriel Roca 9, with an optional paid pickup add-on from east area hotels stated as an exclusion. If your base is somewhere else entirely, the guide to where to stay for boat tours works through port-by-port tradeoffs.

Which Sail Fits Your Budget And Group Size?

Shared barbecue and buffet sails cost $44.82 to $113 per person, the tapas small group cruises cost $110.92 to $125 per person, and the private charters cost from $1,389.36 to $1,877.98 per group for the whole boat with up to 12 guests. Per-person and per-group prices are different bases and cannot be ranked against each other.

The budget question is really three questions. First, per person or per group: the shared sails quoted here are all per person, while the four private charters are per group for the whole boat, up to 12 guests on each. Second, what the food is worth to you: the swimming and snorkelling cruise starts at $44.82 per person and the small group tapas cruise starts at $125 per person, so the gap between them is essentially the price you pay for the meal and the smaller crowd. Third, group size tolerance: 100 guests on the Arenal listing against 10 to 12 on any tapas sail is the difference between a party boat atmosphere and a dinner table.

The private side deserves its own arithmetic, done honestly. The aperitif charter by Catamaran Good Life, from $1,400.56 per group for 4 hours, includes tapas, snorkeling, paddle surfing and a sunset experience. Bar service runs onboard, with drinks paid separately. The same operator's coves charter at the same from-price lists a deli-style lunch and water throughout, and it excludes towels and bar service. The solar-powered pair, E-Sea Mallorca's private cruise at $1,389.36 per group and the Eco Catamaran Eco Experience at $1,877.98 per group, split on food: the cheaper one lists no meal, the dearer one lists homemade snacks and fruits with soft drinks plus an underwater sea scooter. All four carry up to 12 guests. Dividing a per-group price into a per-person figure is not done here, because the listing sets the price for the boat, not the seat.

Two listing-specific notes on group size. The half-day Formentor beach catamaran from Port d'Alcudia, from $45.55 per person with 14 reviews, carries up to 300 guests and lists no meal, so it belongs in this guide only as the counter-example: one of the cheapest catamaran tickets listed here, and it feeds you nothing. And the Deluxe Catamaran listing by Blue Circle, 4.6 from 1,085 reviews at $85.15 per person, sits between categories: an electric catamaran with finger foods and tapas, a welcome cava or juice, SUP boards and snorkel gear, welcome-drink style catering on a shared boat that does not cap its headcount in the listing.

What About Drinks, Snorkel Gear And Other Extras?

Drinks are the most common extra: bar drinks are excluded on the DJ buffet listing, the Good Life charters and the Sailpalma tapas sail, while the Magic Catamarans and BRISA listings include alcohol with the meal. Snorkel gear is included on most food-included listings but costs €20 onboard on the DJ tour and requires a €10 deposit on the Sa Calma trip.

Reading the exclusion lines is where the real cost picture lives. On the tapas side, all three listings sell wine, beer and cocktails on board instead of including them, and the Sail Palma tapas trip bans bringing your own drinks and snacks outright. On the barbecue side, the inclusions are more generous: the Alcudia cruise pours water, soft drinks, beer and sangria with lunch, the BRISA trip includes two drinks with the meal and sells extras, and Magic Catamarans lists soda, water, juice and coffee all trip, plus wine and sangria at the meal. Anyone choosing on drink value alone will notice the difference between "sangria included with lunch" and "bar service, pay as you go".

Gear follows the same pattern of checking rather than assuming. Snorkeling equipment is listed as included on the swimming and snorkelling cruise, the Deluxe trip, the Sa Calma trip, the Magic Catamarans tour (deposit required), all three tapas sails and the two Alcudia cruises. It is an onboard purchase on the DJ buffet tour, at €20 as the listing states it. Paddleboards appear on the Deluxe, Oasis aperitif, Pollensa, tapas and Good Life charter listings; Sa Calma instead lists water slides, a swim platform and snorkel gear with a €10 deposit. Towels are sold for €8 on the DJ tour, excluded except in the VIP area on Sa Calma, excluded on the Good Life coves charter, and unstated elsewhere, so bring your own. The what to bring guide has the fuller packing logic, but the short version is that on any of these boats you want your own towel unless the listing says otherwise.

Swim stops are near universal on the food-included listings, and the water you drop into varies by month. Average sea temperature near Palma runs from 13.9 degrees Celsius in February to 26.0 in August, with June at 22.5 and October at 22.7 on average. Those averages, not daily readings, are the honest way to judge whether the swim stop after lunch is a pleasure or a dare. What you swim over matters too: much of the seagrass visible from these boats is Posidonia meadow, protected because anchoring on it is banned in the Balearics under Decret 25/2018, with authorized buoys as the legal alternative, which is why the boats moor rather than drop anchor at the reserve areas.

Is A Tapas Sail Or A BBQ Sail The Better Pick For You?

Pick a tapas sail if you want 10 to 12 guests, a welcome drink and a quieter boat, paying $110.92 to $125 per person from Palma; pick a barbecue or buffet sail if feeding everyone heartily matters more than headcount, at $44.82 to $113 per person with menus from pasta salad to a full grilled spread. The private charters start at $1,400.56 per group and are a different purchase entirely.

The decision usually comes down to what kind of afternoon you are buying. A tapas sail is a long lunch with a sail attached: four hours, a dozen people, plates to share, and a price that reflects both. A barbecue cruise is a day out that happens to feed you: bigger boat, bigger crowd, a hot meal mid-trip and per-person prices that start less than half the tapas rate. The small group tapas cruises run four hours and start at $110.92 per person; the Palma bay catamarans start from $44.82 and run anywhere from two to five hours. Neither is wrong, they are different products.

Three honest tiebreakers from the listing data. First, if vegetarian or vegan food matters, only two listings state it outright: the DJ buffet tour and the Blue Circle deluxe trip with its finger foods and tapas. Second, if hotel pickup matters, no listing here states it as included, not even the tapas sails, so plan your own transport to the meeting point. The Cala Ratjada trip lists pick-up as an exclusion. Third, if you want wine or sangria included rather than sold, the Magic Catamarans tour and the two northern cruises are the listings that say so. Families weighing the broader question, including whether a barbecue boat suits children at all, will find the catamaran tours with kids guide more useful than any menu comparison.

Timing is the last variable. The sunset options on the DJ buffet and Sa Calma listings turn lunch into dinner, and Palma sunsets on the 15th of the month run from about 5:26 pm in December to 9:18 pm in June, so a June sunset sail runs past a 9:18 pm sunset, while a December one sets near 5:26 pm and sails mostly after dark. More on that in the sunset catamaran guide and the month-by-month breakdown in Mallorca weather by month.

Common Questions About Catamaran Lunch And Tapas Tours